Wednesday, September 13, 2017

(Moscow) For a few days now numerous towns and cities across Russia
have been hit by a wave of bomb alerts. Tens of thousands of people have been
affected. In Moscow over 20,000 people have been evacuated today from shopping centres,
train stations and two universities have been evacuated today. The hoax calls
began on Sunday but the extent of the alerts only became clear by Tuesday:

In Chelyabinsk, in the southern Ural mountains, more than
11,000 people were cleared from 10 buildings on Tuesday

In Perm to the north-west, 5,700 people had to leave schools
and public buildings

Police in the southern city of Stavropol received 42 bomb
hoaxes

Other cities affected ranged from Krasnoyarsk, Novosibirsk
and Omsk in Siberia to the enclave of Kaliningrad in the far west

So far, all of the alerts have proved to be hoaxes and the
public has been urged to remain calm.